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Katie Grant: Show off your sport, not your body, girls

Karen Paterson is a tennis player, one of the best that Scotland has produced. She is ranked No 6 in the UK and about No 400 in the world. However, her career has stalled because, as she revealed last week, she does not have enough funding to continue and must now concentrate on looking for what is called an “adoption” deal in order to keep going.

The pictures taken of her to encourage potential adopters were striking, presumably deliberately so. They showed a blonde girl with a sultry expression and a very long pair of legs. Her demeanour and skimpy outfit suggested she may be bound for Celebrity Love Island. But she is not. Paterson is just advertising herself in a way she thinks will garner her the most attention.

The luckier tennis players have, like the Williams sisters, both talent and looks and Paterson is likewise blessed, though in